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of Cortizo’ s data. At the same time, it needed to be capable of storing the other types of company data. workloads; industrial control equipment specific to its sector; and user files and email.
A third aspect to take into account was that Cortizo’ s IT team consists of three professionals: Ramiro Iglesias himself, Head of Systems; Enrique Herranz, Systems Administrator; and Juan Manuel Fariña, Network Administrator. This required an automated solution that offered the greatest ease of administration to manage it internally.
After evaluating other suppliers, Cortizo opted for the implementation of two FlashArray systems in its two redundant data centres. It is a block storage solution based entirely on flash technology. The Pure Storage systems installed in Cortizo manage all the storage needs of the company: Informix and Oracle SQL databases; virtual servers and VMware virtualised
The speed of their business processes has accelerated, something that is also reflected in our metrics.
Cortizo chose Pure Storage flash storage technology because it offered the most suitable combination of high availability, performance and simplicity of administration. Other aspects were taken into consideration, such as the fact that other international customers in their sector are using the same solution, its competitive price, and that storage based on flash technology is an upward trend in the technology sector.
Assessing immediate improvements that stand out
The implementation process hardly required 15 days and the benefits became evident immediately. Time required for the delivery of information in the different internal systems was reduced by 50 %, while the writing latency of critical services decreased by up to 90 %, compared to previous disk-based solutions. This meant a radical improvement in the experience of the users of the company who use large volumes of data.
“ Suddenly, the users of the system started asking us:‘ Hey, what have you done?’ Before internally notifying the change, they had already experienced the
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